Thank you Al

The idea of a cursor that I zap and repopulate is great. I'm sure that one will work beautifully. However, if I want to try the other way you suggested, how would I go about it? Will restting the proprties as I described before automatically tie it to the window, provided that I had set the properties to blank before closing it?

Just in parentices, the recordSource is NOT lost. The columncount, though, is set to 0, and naturally the controlSource of all columns disappear with the column.

Steven